Hero or Villian? Edward Snowden delivers impact truth on surveillance we now live in

Edward Snowden sent a very important video message today from an undisclosed location in Russia. This was originally aired on Channel 4 UK”s “Alternative Christmas Message” to the Queen’s that aired before his.

Obama has taken our freedoms and thrown them deeper into the toilet. He also makes decisions that I am certain he does not have the authority to make. Is this the price of liberalism and a more equal society? Whether it is or not, I think it is one power drunk man who really has no idea of what it means to be a president of this country.

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Full remarks transcribed below, followed by the video:

Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.

The types of collection in the book -– microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us –- are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. Together we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance, and remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying.

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